HIGHLIGHTS POP CHARTS: ASHLEE ON TOP -- Sales of Ashlee Simpson's debut album ''Autobiography'' (Geffen) rose last week after the season finale of her reality television series, ''The Ashlee Simpson Show'' on MTV, pushing the album back to the No....

August 12, 2004, Thursday

To the Editor: As editor in chief of the Library of America, I was surprised and puzzled by William Pratt's letter (Feb. 29) claiming that the Library of America's ''Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations'' is less comprehensive than it ''purports to...

March 28, 2004, Sunday

To the Editor: You were poorly served by the reviewer of the Library of America volume ''Ezra Pound: Poems and Translations'' (Feb. 1). Nothing was said about the faults of this new edition of Pound's work, which are considerable. The reviewer...

August 3, 2003, Sunday

ACCORDING to an old and highly unreliable story, Pablo Picasso gave a few poems he had written to Gertrude Stein for comment. In the middle of the night, he was roused violently from sleep. It was Miss Stein, shaking him furiously and shouting:...

July 27, 2003, Sunday

IT'S an intensely bright August day when we get off the vaporetto at the Cimetero stop on the tiny island of San Michel Isola. My wife, Judy, and I step onto to the dock, walk through the arch in the salmon-colored brick walls that edge the perimeter...